PREPARATORY QUESTIONS

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

PREPARATORY SET-74

Direction (Qs.1-15): Study the following questions carefully and choose your answer from the given five options.

 

Question No : 1

A right click on the desktop itself will _________

(1) open the Display Properties dialog box

(2) show a context-sensitive menu

(3) open the Control Panel

(4) minimize all open application

(5) None of these

Question No : 2

What is Mail-Merge?

(1) a web based e-mail service with no spam

(2) a name of Yahoo! MINDSET search feature

(3) a new virus-hoax which can delete data from mail-inbox

(4) a feature of MS-Word used to create multiple documents like letters, mailing labels, name tags etc.

(5) None of these

Question No : 3

A logic gate is an electronic circuit which _____

(1) makes logical decisions

(2) allows current only in one direction    

(3) allows current in both the directions

(4) is based on ordinary algebra

(5) None of these

Question No : 4

The difference between raw data and information is ____

(1) The addition of intellect  

(2) The addition of processing

(3) The addition of intelligence

(4) All the above

(5) None of these

Question No : 5

The number of margins on a page is _____

(1) two (header and footer)

(2) four (top, bottom, right & left)

(3) two (landscape (5)  portrait)

(4) two (top and bottom )

(5) None of these

Question No : 6

VIRUS stands for

(1) Vital Information Recourse Under Siege

(2) Vital Information Reason Under Siege

(3) Vital Information Recourse Under System

(4) Virus Information Recourse Under Siege

(5) None of these

Question No : 7

Hacker is a person _____

(1) who spends hours at a computer and enjoys doing so

(2) who repairs the computer

(3) who designs software which are threats to the system

(4) who provides internet facility

(5) None of these

Question No : 8

Which one of the following would be considered as a way that a computer virus can enter a computer system?

(1) Opening an application previously installed on the computer

(2) Borrowed an illegal copy of software

(3) Viewing a website without causing any additional transactions

(4) Running antivirus programs

(5) None of these

Question No : 9

The purpose of the primary key in a database is to _____

(1) unlock the database

(2) provide map of the data

(3) uniquely identify a record

(4) establish constraints on database operations

(5) None of these

Question No : 10

A debugging tool is a program used _____

(1) to remove bugs from a user program

(2) to remove viruses from the computer

(3) to display errors in a user program

(4) to help the user find bugs in his program

(5) None of these

Question No : 11

What is meant by a dedicated computer?

(1) Which is used by one person only

(2) Which is assigned one and only one task

(3) Which uses one kind of software

(4) Which is meant for application software

(5) None of these

Question No : 12

What does Delivery Channel mean?

(1) Maternity wards.

(2) Handing over products to the buyers.

(3) Places where products are made available to the buyers.

(4) All of them.

(5) None of these

Question No : 13

A hard copy of the document means _____

(1) A document stored on the floppy

(2) A document stored on the hard disk

(3) A document stored on a CD

(4) A document printed on the printer

(5) None of these

Question No : 14

Passwords enable users to _____

(1) get into the system quickly          

(2) make efficient use of time       

(3) simplify file structures

(4) retain confidentiality of files

(5) None of these

Question No : 15

Computers in a computer network are connected via _____

(1) Telephone line only

(2) Satellite channel only

(3) Caoxial cable only

(4) Either telephone line or satellite channel or both

(5) None of these